for "sportsillustrated."danajacobsoninterviewed armstrong and is with cbs sports and paul cowen is our legal contributor. you all have different views of this. you've covered him. you've covered this sport. you have covered this story. what did you make of the interview? >> he is still as arrogant as he always was. i still don't understand why he's doing it now if it isn't to try to get back in the good graces of usada in some way and eventually start competing again in triathlons is what's been discussed. in some ways, he didn't give me anything. he didn't even show contrition. if you aren't even going to show contrition, why apologize. what are you apologizing for? >> what did you think? were there moments when you said, look, i was a prick or it was a big lie. he said all those things but it didn't come, to dana's point, with this -- i don't know what we were looking for. whether it was tears or some window into someone's soul. >> sort of a piece of theater for lance. i don't think it's going to come off well for him. i don't think he's capable of giving the kind of apology people w

to give some ground in the debtfight.danabashis joining usnow.dana, arethe republicans in the house of representatives blinking a little here? what's going on? >> a little, wolt if. they say they are going to have a vote that will delay the debt ceiling for three months. so what they are doing, if you really look at house republicans who took the majority two years ago, they did it standing on principle for pretty much every squirmish. it seems that they are becoming a bit more sophisticated, rather, but their understanding, it seems, is that you have to pick your battles. losing credit ratings and so forth, that's not a smart battle to wage. look at some of the most conservative members of the house talking to deirdre walsh at the end of their retreat for three days about picking their battles in a better way. >> deal with the smaller ones first, maybe build up a little momentum, credibility, not only with the credit markets but with the folks back home, that we can actually deal with these things, take the small one first, debt ceiling last, i think it's a rational, reasonable thi